Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive tha…

Steven Pinker
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Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance. ✨ The Importance of Being Businessworthy by Per L. Saxegaard, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2015.
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